SLOUGH is home to one of the most haunted hotels throughout the entire country.

The data from Haunted Britain collected information on some of the UK’s most known haunted hotels and places.

The Ostrich Inn Hotel in Colnbrook features on the list of the most haunted hotels to visit in England.

Richard Jones conducted on the spot research at over 3,000 Haunted places and is well versed in paranormal history.

Staff at the hotel claim to hear eerie sounds of creaking boards, ghostly sighs and spectral bumps in rooms around the hotel.

So what makes it one of the most haunted hotels in the UK?

Haunted Britain says The Ostrich Inn Hotel was once an important stopover on the main stagecoach route that ran from London to Bath.

The Ostrich plays it safe and claims to be the "fourth oldest" and records of the inn certainly date as far back as 1165.

One thing it can certainly claim, however, is that it was the first pub in England to ever be featured in a novel, Thomas of Reading, written in the late 16th century by Thomas Deloney.

It was Deloney's reporting of the nefarious exploits of a former landlord called Jarman that secured the Ostrich's place in Berkshire legend.

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His infamous crimes are generally thought to have taken place at some time around the 1300's.

In those days, wealthy travellers would pause at the inn to change from their mud-spattered clothes, into the finery expected for their appearances before the monarch at nearby Windsor Castle.

Many of these wayfarers would often carry vast sums of money with them, a fact that didn't go unnoticed by Jarman who had soon devised a profitable and intricate method of relieving them of both their riches and their lives.

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Whenever a seemingly affluent patron arrived at his inn, Jarman would waste no time in plying the stranger with strong drink.

Having arranged for these special guests to sleep in his "best room," he would give them time to collapse into bed and, once he was sure that they were fast asleep, he would undo two bolts on the ceiling in the room beneath.

This would cause their bed to tilt downwards at a 45 angle, sending the insensible sleeper tumbling into a vat of boiling fat, that Jarman always kept ready in the room below.

He would then steal the person's belongings; sell his horse and clothes to the unquestioning gypsies, and dispose of the body into the nearby river.

He seems to have profited immensely from his activities and to have escaped any suspicion for many years.

But then one night a suitably drunk stranger had crawled into the bed, when the amount of alcohol he had consumed, forced him to climb straight back out and make use of the rooms chamber pot.

As he answered the call, he was astonished to see the head of his bed, suddenly tilt and disappear into the floor. His terrified shouts roused the other guests, and Jarman's murderous career was over.

On the gallows, he boasted of having killed more than sixty people, although the actual believed total is closer to fifteen.

Staff at the inn, where a decidedly old world charm still holds sway, are often troubled by the "sinister atmospheres" that seem to hang over certain sections, and several landlords have complained of their night-times repose being rudely disturbed by the eerie sound of creaking boards, ghostly sighs and spectral bumps, that are simply attributed to one of Jarman's long ago victims.

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